[McLaren-TAG]

After going through the process of buying a new exhaust/s and trying things out on my car, I realized a few things, unfortunately I found my solution only the PayPal button had been pressed a few times buying and selling.


I realized that the sound we all lust for is really just subjective.
I realized that the exhaust is just one component that needs to work in concert with the entirety the rest of the mods you've got to get the response you're looking for and you may be unhappy with your choice unless you do a lot of research and ask the wise guys.

I'll leave the performance side out of this since there is a way to quantify that and just focus on the experience and the sound. I don't like YouTube clips because they don't really give you the experience of the real thing and you can't get the sense of drone or the way certain sounds just resonate in your chest cavity. In the end they're sort of like watching pron, it's just not the same as being there. .

My original starting point was a 3.2 with SSI's and an early OE muffler that in hindsight I would have been happy to keep were it not for it being in the sorryest of states.

Having had that setup for a few years and having heard other P cars in the process as well as being very happy with the sound on my existing setup, I thought it would be good to start a very generalized thread of sounds where we rate what we've got on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being an electric car, and 10 being and open exhaust. I'm looking for day to day spirited driving impression only as we all know a flat six sound glorious when it's screaming at 5k regardless of what's back there. So no Apples to orange comparison of competitive use. Any mods made to the engine will have some type of effect on the sound, so you should list that as well.


3.2 Stock internals, Open Air Box, SW 93 Oct Chip, SSI's (so in all cases 2 in)

1 out early OE muffler: 5

(baffled) M&K GT3: 7.5 quite a bit of drone

Dansk Sport GT3: 6.5 slight drone

Megaphones: 9.5 (just sitting and revving in the driveway not streetable!)